Cumberland County, NC - Bedredden Carraway Estate, 1821 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts - egpotts@gmail.com April 7, 1821 State of North Carolina - Cumberland County Know all men by these presents that we Sarah Carraway, Bedreden Carraway and John Dickson are held and firmly bound unto the Chairman and other Justices of the County Court of Cumberland, in the sum of one hundred pounds current money to be paid to the said Chairman or his successors and other Justices of the County of Cumberland. To the which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this 7th day of April, 1821. The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bounden Sarah Caraway administratrix of all and singular, the goods and chattels, right and credits of the deceased which shall come to the hands, knowledge or possession of the said Sarah Carraway or into the hands or possession of any person or persons, for her and the same so made, do exhibit or case to be exhibted one attested copy thereof to the county court, where orders for administration passed within ninety days after the date of these presents and the same goods, chattels and credits and all other good chattels and credits of the deceased at the time of his death or which will come into the hands or possession of the said Sarah Carraway. Sarah X Carraway B. Carraway Junr John Dickson End of document ****** Agreeable to an order of the Court of Probate held for Cumberland County to us directed to lay off one years support for Sarah Carraway widow of Bedreden Carraway Dec'd from the 27th day of April 1821 we allow her five hundred pounds of bacon, three hundred pounds beef, fifty bushels of corn, five hundred pounds blade fodder, two bushels of salt, five pounds of coffee, twenty pounds of sugar, five gallons molasses, one barrel of flour, one pound pepper, one pound of spice given under our hands and seals. End of Document Cumberland County, NC Estate file of Bedredden Carraway Dec'd